From the 1910 funeral of King Edward VII, which began the modern era inaugurated by his successor George V, to the birth of Prince George to Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, in ...(Read More)

(Shortlisted for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography and a 2011 Edgar Award) This provocative first "biography" of fictional detective Charlie Chan presents American ...(Read More)

By 1910, just seven years after the Wright brothers first took off at Kitty Hawk, America and the world were transfixed by the challenge of mastering the air. Dirigibles, balloons, and airplanes vied ...(Read More)

In the grand tradition of the scholar-adventurer, swordsman and publisher Richard Cohen takes us around the world to illuminate our relationship with the star that gives us life in this erudite, ...(Read More)

The author of the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and Whitbread Award winner "My Heart is My Own": The Life of Mary Queen of Scots, John Guy here lifts the historical veil to ...(Read More)

With hundreds of vivid color photographs, many of them sweeping across two full pages (20 x 12 inches), this book is an arresting visual tour of modern China, tracing the route of Mao's Long March to ...(Read More)

Originating in China 5,000 years ago, tea became a deeply ingrained part of Chinese culture before spreading throughout the world. Luo Jialin surveys the four main varieties of tea—green, black, ...(Read More)

In October 1871, a simmering, small-scale turf war involving three Chinese gangs exploded into a riot that engulfed the small but growing town of Los Angeles. A large mob of white Angelenos, spurred ...(Read More)

From the political, social, and economic disputes between the antebellum South and the Northern United States to the first shots fired at Fort Sumter, South Carolina—and the four devastating years of ...(Read More)

From the attack on Pearl Harbor to the armistice with Japan on September 2nd, 1945, this book provides an encyclopedic, day-by-day chronology of most of World War II's pivotal events. Despite the ...(Read More)

"We were dumped at a roundabout with our labels on," remembers Alexander King, who was 11 at the time. "People pulled and tugged at the children they wanted. It was a bit like a cattle market ... ...(Read More)